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Eulalia said:
At the risk of over-exposing this fine song, I found this clip today,
as well as a good performance, it's worth watching to see the Italian Chapel -
built by Italian PoWs on Orkney when they were working on the Churchill Barriers,
dropping huge loads of rubble, concrete etc. into the sea between small islands,
to stop U-boats getting into Scapa Flow - a beautiful and very atmospheric place ...

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Thanks for posting that! It is my favourite version, better than the several I found down the rabbit-hole of YouTube. And, to my ears, better than the more 'Irish' version by Luke Kelly (but then, I prefer Karine Polwart's folk music style to his). And the Italian Chapel angle was a nice addition.
 
On November 12, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at CERN in Geneva published his proposal for the World Wide Web. Prior to that, perverts who wanted to read dirty stories or look at filthy pictures had to put on clothes and go out in the cold down to their local newsstand or "adult" bookstore where they could furtively check out the publications that met there needs. As for cinema, bring a roll of quarters...
 
windar said:
On November 12, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at CERN in Geneva published his proposal for the World Wide Web. Prior to that, perverts who wanted to read dirty stories or look at filthy pictures had to put on clothes and go out in the cold down to their local newsstand or "adult" bookstore where they could furtively check out the publications that met there needs. As for cinema, bring a roll of quarters...
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It's worth pointing out that HTML was originally designed for sharing physics papers at CERN. Possibly Tim Berners-Lee was far-seeing enough to see other applications, but I doubt it and if he was I doubt if he would admit it.
I recall going into academic libraries for "pre-prints" and searching through stacks or inter-library loans for material. You also had to deal with people's notes, like the one Stephen Jay Gould found in a book by sex-researcher Kinsey's on his earlier work on wasps: "You can find something more interesting to write about, Al".
 
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windar said:
On November 12, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at CERN in Geneva published his proposal for the World Wide Web. Prior to that, perverts who wanted to read dirty stories or look at filthy pictures had to put on clothes and go out in the cold down to their local newsstand or "adult" bookstore where they could furtively check out the publications that met there needs. As for cinema, bring a roll of quarters...
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I thought Al Gore invented the internet:doh: :doh: :doh:
 
thehangingtree said:
I thought Al Gore invented the internet:doh: :doh: :doh:
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For the record, here is what Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, two internet pioneers, had to say regarding the true leadership role Al Gore played in Congress in furthering the internet https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/

Tree should look for a new writer as a search on CF (another great feature of the internet) reveals that he's told this "joke" at least six times before. Too bad the borscht belt is gone...
 
windar said:
Tree should look for a new writer as a search on CF (another great feature of the internet) reveals that he's told this "joke" at least six times before. Too bad the borscht belt is gone...
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Hey, never heard of a running gag or joke?

Some of us enjoy them ;)
 
windar said:
For the record, here is what Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf, two internet pioneers, had to say regarding the true leadership role Al Gore played in Congress in furthering the internet https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/internet-of-lies/

Tree should look for a new writer as a search on CF (another great feature of the internet) reveals that he's told this "joke" at least six times before. Too bad the borscht belt is gone...
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One site denies this??? Perhaps Trump won in 2016!!!
 
RacingRodent said:
From the wikipedia article but substantiated elsewhere

Of the 122 soldiers of the 24th Regiment present at the Battle of Rorke's Drift, 49 are known to have been of English nationality, 32 were Welsh, 16 were Irish, one was a Scot, and three were born overseas. The nationalities of the remaining 21 are unknown.

Likely best to say British :D
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Even if the movie exaggerated the "Welshness" of the troops, speaking of folk tunes, it should be recognized for presenting a Zulu war chant and promoting the fabulous Welsh anthem, ""Men of Harlech"
 
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Praefectus Praetorio said:
On this day in 1940, Neville Chamberlain died.
On the 12th Winston Churchill gave a eulogy in the House of Commons.

"The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the Fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honour.

"Whatever else history may or may not say about these terrible, tremendous years, we can be sure that Neville Chamberlain acted with perfect sincerity according to his lights and strove to the utmost of his capacity and authority, which were powerful, to save the world from the awful, devastating struggle in which we are now engaged…."
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I hadn’t realized Churchill had been so gracious in victory.
 
Apostate said:
I hadn’t realized Churchill had been so gracious in victory.
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We shouldn't forget that in the 1930's, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Chamberlain was the major proponent of Military spending, especially on the RAF, against fierce opposition (derided as "the merest scaremongering; disgraceful in a statesman of Mr Chamberlain's responsible position"). It was this preparation, without doubt, that enabled the RAF to win the Battle of Britain and forstall a German invasion, which, despite Churchill's marvelous rhetoric, would have succeeded in conquering Britain.
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
RAF to win the Battle of Britain and forstall a German invasion, which, despite Churchill's marvelous rhetoric, would have succeeded in conquering Britain.
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From what little I know, the RAF deserves much credit for fighting off the Luftwaffe, which wasn’t actually designed to do what Hitler and Goering were asking it to do. But credit the RAF for doing everything right.

But wasn’t a seaborne invasion far beyond the capability of the Kriegsmarine to actually carry out and support? The Royal Navy deserves some credit too.
 
Barbaria1 said:
From what little I know, the RAF deserves much credit for fighting off the Luftwaffe, which wasn’t actually designed to do what Hitler and Goering were asking it to do. But credit the RAF for doing everything right.

But wasn’t a seaborne invasion far beyond the capability of the Kriegsmarine to actually carry out and support? The Royal Navy deserves some credit too.
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If the Luftwaffe controlling the air threatened the RN from above and and the u-boats threatened the surface ships from below, the landing, most likely, could have been done. And the English Army was so reduced after leaving all their equipment in France, would have been no match for German Panzers.
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
If the Luftwaffe controlling the air threatened the RN from above and and the u-boats threatened the surface ships from below, the landing, most likely, could have been done. And the English Army was so reduced after leaving all their equipment in France, would have been no match for German Panzers.
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I thought older women were called 'coyotes' ... what does Tree know???
 
Praefectus Praetorio said:
If the Luftwaffe controlling the air threatened the RN from above and and the u-boats threatened the surface ships from below, the landing, most likely, could have been done. And the English Army was so reduced after leaving all their equipment in France, would have been no match for German Panzers.
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Still asking a lot, isn’t it? Think of what was necessary for the Allied navies to pull off the Normandy landings, and they had complete control of the air.
 
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